02 May 2014

Without giving a second thought, each one of use would accept the fact that emails nowadays is the most indispensible part of any organization. Today, working in any office environment, be it usual communication, or even reporting to managers. All these are done through emails. In fact, these days MS Outlook and MS Exchange server are the most used email clients and Exchange Server that are widely used by many professionals.

The important aspect that one got to know is that while working on an exchange server, every time an email is sent through MS Outlook, a copy of that email is saved on Exchange Server in EDB (Exchange Server database) files. In fact, this EDB file very well stores vital information like to, CC, from, Bcc etc. and contacts, calendar, journal, and notes. But have you ever imagined what would you do if the MS Exchange Server database gets corrupted? Definitely, you may never ever like to think about any such situation because MS Exchange Server database corruption could easily lead to inaccessibility of mailbox, loss of the entire database.

20 January 2014

MS Exchange Server is a server based application for storage and retrieval of email records. Mailbox information of all users connected with a MS Exchange network is saved in Exchange database folders and groups. Exchange database corruption adversely affects email services in business organizations that use MS Exchange Server. Logical EDB file errors are among the prominent Exchange Server corruption. Exchange Server error 327 is a common case of EDB logical corruption which appears in the Windows application log like this:

Chief reasons: Exchange error code 327 is reported during online defragmentation of MS Exchange Server. It indicates corruption at database page level of an Exchange mailbox store or jet database engine crash. It may happen due to several reasons such as corruption of the Windows logical or physical drive, virus infection, hardware problem and others.

Most
of us are very much aware of the fact that Exchange Database files
are nothing more than the exact replica of user’s mailbox on MS
Outlook. Moreover, this MS Exchange Server works in proper
cooperation with MS Outlook in exchange of emails. And, each and
every single email that is received or sent at the user’s end is
primarily saved at server. Now, exchange server primarily store these
emails as Exchange Database files that prove very helpful when you
require dealing with accidental deletion of user mailbox.